(Indigo Jackson) As a navigation intern, basically my job is to communicate with the bridge,
give them any instructions we need while we're mapping - if they have to slow speed or
speed up or look out for something - we talk to them then they do that. We also
watch the position of the ship on the monitors when dives are going on. So we
make sure the ship is positioned where it needs to be to allow the ROV's to move
and explore the things that they need to. And we also watch the return from the
mapping sonar on the screen when we're mapping. (Jacquelyn Kubicko) So I'm in charge of basically
the communications between the bridge and the control van. I mean I use a
software predominantly Hypack where you could see what the ship's doing, what
Argus is doing, what Herc's doing and you kind of coordinate all those movements
together and moving the ship and bridge communications and coordinating
everything.
(Lidia Perez Marcellino) Hello. This is the bridge. And I would like to show you. When the ROV's
are launching or recovering we use that. And here we
the Control Van show us where is the waypoint, bearing, distance what they
want to do. GPS.
And the communication with the Control Van. (Capt. Emil Petruncio) Clear and concise communications -
that's important for the navigators role. Maintaining the big picture of the
goals for the mission, which involves communication with the chief scientists
to see what you want to accomplish. And then time management to keep the dive on
schedule to accomplish those goals.
(Mike Brennan - Expedition Leader) So if we can move the launch site to somewhere a little bit closer to this canyon.
(Sulaiman - Navigator) We can. And we can even do that while we are diving because have more than one hour.
and that is when the current pushed us. (Erik - Lead Scientist) Right, so we can just let it drift.
(Mike Brennan - Expedition Leader) So let's get the team ready and the captain ready to approve this.
(Deborah King) I think probably the biggest challenge
would be to fulfill the scientific mission with the actual navigation mission of
getting from point A to point B. Research vessels move a lot differently than
regular boats. That's where you have to decide what place he should go, why you
should go there. And the route that you may take may be a lot different and may
have a lot more stops than like what I'm used to.
Soon as we completed the move, please let me know. Thank you.
Mate: (calls on radio) Nav-Bridge. Navigator: (calls on radio) Go ahead bridge. Mate: Step complete. Navigator: Ok.
(Sean Bercaw) As a good navigator one of the things I try to teach my students, and I try not to forget myself,
is to always assess the information. Say ok, I have this piece of information does this really makes sense.
You know it might be odd, but that might be because there's a current or something else going on.
Or it might be odd because I've either made a math error, or I've entered a number wrong or
whatever the factors. But just, you know, sort of going back through that
assessment loop and saying okay here's this piece of information, does it makes
sense? I like it because of a spatial aspect.
One of the things I've learned teaching it is that with the piloting, it is really
amusing the watch is that the artistic students who are sort of used to spatial
aspects they often get the piloting pretty quickly, working on the chart and
talking about lines and bearings and all. (Indigo Jackson) It's a really different culture from
what we've seen the military. So like everyone's on a first-name basis. I just
talked to someone and he emphasized, you know, although I'm just an intern coming
here it's like you're on the same level with everyone else. You can talk to them,
they're training you to do their job, they're not having you run to get coffee
or anything like. You're actually learning to do what they do and this is
just a whole new experience to me. I'm trying to learn what questions to ask,
where I need to go, what I'm not exactly told what I should be doing this to
maximize the experience. So it's really new and it's interesting. Wasn't that really cool?